Lab members

• Paul Martin
  (Principal Investigator) Paul is interested in anything woundy or linked to inflammation in any model from mouse and man to fish and flies.
• Francesca Robertson
  (Post doc) Francesca will be using Drosophila to investigate how innate immune cells respond to wound cues.
• Kaiming Luo
  (Post doc) Kaiming did fishy things during her PhD in Australia and will be investigating wound and cancer inflammation, again in zebrafish, during her time in Bristol.
• Mark Naven
  (Post doc) Mark is trying to figure out how the circadian clock might impact on tissue repair via inflammatory cell control of fibroblast matrix deposition.
• Oscar Peña Cabello
  (Post doc) Oscar will be using zebrafish wound models to validate potential "scarring" genes that arise from population health studies in Nic Timpson's lab.
• Paco Lopez Cuevas
  Paco is a PhD student studying the effects of infection and inflammation on tumour progression and also how we might reprogramme the inflammatory response to make it better at killing cancer.
• Juma Ward
  Juma is a PhD student who studies how platelets (called thrombocytes in zebrafish) and microclots, together with local inflammatory cells, impact on tumour metastasis.
• Luke Deane
  Luke is a PhD student using zebrafish cancer models to study the cellular effects that radiotherapy has on the inflammatory response and how this impacts the tumour.
• Jake Turley
  Jake is a mathematician doing a joint PhD, modelling wound healing in Drosophila with co-supervisors Tannie Liverpool and Isaac Chenchiah (Maths) and Helen Weavers (Biochem).
• Anne George
  Anne is a PhD student working on zebrafish wound healing models and is focused on understanding how inflammation regulates some of the lesser studied wound lineages like adipocytes and melanocytes.

• Debi Ford
  Debi is the lab technical manager and a senior histology technician.
• Esther Prada-Sanchez
  Esther is a specialist technician who works half time in our lab on all things fishy.
• Tim Byatt
  Tim's PhD project(s) are all led by comparative proteomics. He's comparing how plants heal wounds versus how animals heal wounds versus how cancers progress in animals.

• Lucy MacCarthy-Morrogh
  Lucy is a Lecturer in the School of Biochemistry. She was previously our lab's Senior Scientific Officer and maintains an interest in the cancer inflammation projects in the lab.

• This could be you!
  We are currently recruiting post docs in several of the areas we work in.
• This could be you!
  There are a range of PhD programmes that would mean you could sign up and potentially do a PhD in our lab. See the links below for further details: